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Topic	Tazzy Ranks 102 User-Nominated Anime with Write-ups: The Top 20
tazzyboyishere 05/10/18 10:46:02 PM #31:	17. ERASED (2016) Turnsniper (2/5) ERASED is about a guy who works as a pizza delivery boy getting the power to move backwards in time in order to prevent tragedies. After a particularly personal tragedy, he jumps back much further than ever before, all the way to his childhood. Here, he must intervene with fate in order to prevent a series of kidnappings involving elementary school girls. Of course, he must do all of this in the body of a grade schooler, but the mind of an adult. While the mystery of who the kidnapper is and how his plot unravels drives the narrative, I feel like people who go into this expecting some deep mystery would be let down by how obvious and shallow everything is. But I think the show works better when viewed as a personal tale of child abuse, and how helpless the victims tend to be. The writing for the show is always pretty great. Even with a few blatantly obvious plot twists, it was really exciting to see everything unravel. Satoru being able to retain his adult brain makes for some pretty awesome confrontations with the adults. Kayo's story is one of the most heartbreaking I've seen, and it's completely satisfying o see her saved in the end. I also loved Airi, Satoru's coworker from the present day, but she gets shafted near the end, unfortunately, despite playing a huge part in the manga (Which I still need to read :/). Really, the first 75% of this show is perfect. It's got great drama, explore interesting concepts, and pretty much every major character feels fleshed out. But it starts to rush things toward the end, culminating into a joke of an ending. They literally catch the main villain using a trick taken straight out of something like Hey Arnold. They apparently tried to cram a fourth of the entire story into one finale, which obviously makes for some bad writing. It's just a shame such a good show failed to stick the landing in such an embarrassing fashion. I do plan on reading the manga though. While I know the mystery and the overall conclusion, I'm still pretty interested to see things expanded on. I think the anime could've been top 10 material without the rushing, so I imagine I'll love the manga. Just some neat stuff to look forward to in the future! --- http://i.imgur.com/l7xxLh1.jpg PSN/Steam - RoboQuote ; NNID - TazzyMan <cite>tazzyboyishere posted [p:901145037] in Tazzy Rank... [t:76582456]...</cite> <quote>17. ERASED (2016) Turnsniper (2/5) ERASED is about a guy who works as a pizza delivery boy getting the power to move backwards in time in order to prevent tragedies. After a particularly personal tragedy, he jumps back much further than ever before, all the way to his childhood. Here, he must intervene with fate in order to prevent a series of kidnappings involving elementary school girls. Of course, he must do all of this in the body of a grade schooler, but the mind of an adult. While the mystery of who the kidnapper is and how his plot unravels drives the narrative, I feel like people who go into this expecting some deep mystery would be let down by how obvious and shallow everything is. But I think the show works better when viewed as a personal tale of child abuse, and how helpless the victims tend to be. The writing for the show is always pretty great. Even with a few blatantly obvious plot twists, it was really exciting to see everything unravel. Satoru being able to retain his adult brain makes for some pretty awesome confrontations with the adults. Kayo's story is one of the most heartbreaking I've seen, and it's completely satisfying o see her saved in the end. I also loved Airi, Satoru's coworker from the present day, but she gets shafted near the end, unfortunately, despite playing a huge part in the manga (Which I still need to read :/). Really, the first 75% of this show is perfect. It's got great drama, explore interesting concepts, and pretty much every major character feels fleshed out. But it starts to rush things toward the end, culminating into a joke of an ending. They literally catch the main villain using a trick taken straight out of something like Hey Arnold. They apparently tried to cram a fourth of the entire story into one finale, which obviously makes for some bad writing. It's just a shame such a good show failed to stick the landing in such an embarrassing fashion. I do plan on reading the manga though. While I know the mystery and the overall conclusion, I'm still pretty interested to see things expanded on. I think the anime could've been top 10 material without the rushing, so I imagine I'll love the manga. Just some neat stuff to look forward to in the future! --- http://i.imgur.com/l7xxLh1.jpg PSN/Steam - RoboQuote ; NNID - TazzyMan</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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